Temple (name)

People and fictional characters with the name Temple include:

Surname

• Bill Temple (footballer) (1914–2006), English footballer
• Derek Temple (born 1938), English footballer
• Diana Temple (1925–2006), Australian pharmacologist
• Floyd Temple (1926–2012), American baseball player and coach
• Francisco P. Temple (1822–1880), Californian statesman and merchant
• Frédéric Jacques Temple (1921–2020), French poet and writer
• Frederick Temple (1821–1902), Archbishop of Canterbury, grandson of William Johnson Temple
• George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992), English mathematician
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister
• Henry Wilson Temple (1864–1955), American politician
• Herbert R. Temple Jr. (1928–2024), American military officer
• James Temple (1606–1680), English Civil War soldier and regicide
• Julien Temple (born 1953), English film director
• Juno Temple (born 1989), English actress, daughter of Julien
• Lew Temple (born 1967), American film actor
• Luke Temple, American singer-songwriter
• Nancy Temple, former in-house attorney at Arthur Andersen LLP involved in the Enron scandal
• Nina Temple (born 1956), British communist politician
• Octavius Temple (1784–1834), British colonial official, son of William Johnson Temple
• Owen Temple (born 1976), American musician
• Peter Temple (1946–2018), Australian crime fiction writer
• Peter Temple (regicide) (1599–1663), English Member of Parliament
• Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet (1592–1653), English Member of Parliament
• Philip Temple (born 1939), New Zealand fiction and non-fiction writer
• Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and anthropological writer
• Robert K. G. Temple (born 1945), American author
• Shirley Temple (1928–2014), American child actress, singer, dancer and ambassador
• Simon Temple, the Elder (1780–1805) and Simon Temple, the Younger (1759–1815), English ship builders at Temple shipbuilders
• Tony Temple (born 1985), American football player
• Tracey Temple, former secretary to and lover of British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
• William Temple (governor) (1814–1863), Governor of Delaware
• William Temple (bishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury, son of Frederick, great-grandson of William Johnson Temple
• William Johnson Temple (1739–1796), English clergiman known for life-long correspondence with James Boswell

Given name

• Temple Grandin (born 1947), American professor, slaughterhouse designer and autism activist
• Temple Hardy (1765–1814), British Royal Navy officer; grandson of Temple Stanyan
• Temple Hauptfleisch (born 1945), South African academic and playwright
• Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), youngest son of Sam Houston
• Temple F. Smith (born 1939), American professor of biomedical engineering
• Temple Stanyan (1675–1752), English politician and historian of ancient Greece
• Temple Tucker, American basketball player

Fictional characters

• the title character of Charlotte Temple, a 1791 novel by Susanna Rowson
• Claire Temple, a Marvel Comics character
  • Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the 21st-century film version of said character
• the title character of Lucy Temple, Charlotte Temple's daughter in an 1828 novel by Rowson
• Paul Temple, an amateur private detective created by Francis Durbridge
• Temple Drake, a William Faulkner character

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